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Innula Zenovka

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Tangential takeaway from this. Maybe the problem wasn't communism at all.

Maybe the problem was Russians.
As a Russian friend of mine explained to me in the early 1990s, "We Russians realised that Communism was a lost cause when not even the Germans could make it work."
 

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Tangential takeaway from this. Maybe the problem wasn't communism at all.

Maybe the problem was Russians.
Of course, Russia has been ruled by one totalitarian oligarchy after another for two-thousand years, irrespective of political ideology. Those labels are, and have always been, meaningless. We have to assume it’ll still be the case a thousand years from now.
 

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Of course, Russia has been ruled by one totalitarian oligarchy after another for two-thousand years, irrespective of political ideology. Those labels are, and have always been, meaningless. We have to assume it’ll still be the case a thousand years from now.
Bold of you to assume there will be any civilization in a thousand years. 🙃
 
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The central theme is hopelessness either way.
 
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There're still Woolworth stores around?
Not the same store. US Woolworth's was a variety department store, not a grocery store.

Woolworth closed its remaining variety stores in the United States in 1997, thus abandoning its traditional general-merchandise retail business there.

After renaming itself Venator Group, Inc., in 1998, the company operated retail stores in North America, Europe, and Australia into the early 21st century.
 
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I just felt like posting some Russian synth.